Bryan v. Riddel

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• plaintiff failed to make adequate disclosures of expected witness testimony, but defendant had obtained the relevant information via other discovery methods
• “Disclosure, like all discovery, is not a game. . . . Neither the ‘new’ rules nor the ‘old’ were intended to be used as swords by overzealous litigators.”
• “This sanction was never designed or intended, however, to be 16 just another weapon in the arsenal of those who delight in gamesmanship and like to call it 17 ‘advocacy.’”

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